"That's not writing; that's just typing." –Truman Capote

You’re revising your little tails off this weekend. Good. This is the writing process, folks. Remember to, first and foremost, write an interesting and solid essay. Stop worrying about what “I want”–I’ve told you what I want: interesting, thoughtful, and engaging writing. Do that. Worry about whether what you’re writing is any good in general terms not what grade you’re going to get. If you do good work, the grade will take care of itself. If you panic and default to sad, boring, stilted, studenty writing, the grades will likewise reflect that. Consult the original assignment sheet–there is valuable information there–and go through the workshop/revision steps in that blue packet. I am only collecting your final draft, so go ahead and set the other drafts on fire if you want. Really, it’s cathartic.

You need to read that “Extended Language” piece for our work next week. Reading all of that and working on your essay and blogging and doing everything else you must do is probably kind of a lot. Read it when you can, I am not going to sniff out those of you who haven’t read it yet on Monday, but it will help you to make sense of what we’re doing Monday and Tuesday so… you know, read it, but sleep, too.

Your blog post is not open topic this weekend. Instead, pay attention to the lyrics of a song you have been listening to recently. Post the song and/or the lyrics and then comment on them. (When I say “comment on them” I mean make some sense of them, see what you notice about them, explain how they are oh-so-effective and why. Not like mad-rhetorical-analysis-why, but some kind of why.)